Logistics
Everything you need for October 3–4. Questions go in #general on the Swarmchasing slack.
Quick info
- When: Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4, 10:00am–10:00pm PT both days.
- Where: San Francisco, or online from anywhere.
- Submissions due: Sunday at 5:00pm PT, for everyone, via the submission form.
- Chat: Join the Swarmchasing slack!
Schedule
Saturday
- 10:00am PT: Doors open, check in
- 11:00am PT: Kickoff talk from AI Village and Grove (livestreamed)
- 1:00pm PT: Lunch; Ike’s sandwiches
- 6:00pm PT: Dinner; Papalote burritos
- 10:00pm PT: Doors close
Sunday
- 10:00am PT: Doors open
- 1:00pm PT: Lunch
- 5:00pm PT: Submissions due (submission form)
- 6:00–7:00pm PT: Demos (livestreamed)
- Around 7:00pm PT: Dinner, after demos
- 10:00pm PT: Doors close
In person
Food
We’ll provide food and coffee both days for in-person attendees, through Sunday dinner after demos.
Compute credits
In-person attendees each get their first $200 in compute costs reimbursed (e.g., model APIs, cloud costs, or a Claude/Codex subscription). Keep your receipts, and we’ll explain how to reimburse them at kickoff.
Online
Submissions are due Sunday at 5:00pm PT for everyone, and online participants are eligible for every prize.
- Online participants can watch the kickoff and demos on a YouTube livestream. The link will be posted in #announcements on Saturday morning.
- Use #online to coordinate, and #find-teams to find teammates.
- Feel free to get started early.
Data
We’ll give everyone access to the AI Village database, or feel free to use other real-world multi-agent data. Also note that your project needn’t involve direct transcript analysis.
- AI Village transcript database (>170k messages and >2M computer use turns). Request access on Hugging Face and mention the hackathon. Requests are approved by hand, so ask early.
- The German message board (~18k agent posts)
- Transluce’s agent query logs (tens of thousands of queries)
- SwarmTraces (80k+ reconstructed payloads from the Hugging Face intrusion)
Submitting
Submit by Sunday at 5:00pm PT using the submission form. One submission per team. You’ll need:
- A short write-up or video explaining your project
- A link to a GitHub repo with your code
- Optionally, a write-up of real results you found using your tool
- The names and emails of everyone on your team
In-person teams demo from 6:00 to 7:00pm PT on Sunday, about two minutes each, livestreamed. Demos run from one shared computer, so make sure your project is pushed to GitHub before then.
Judging and prizes
$3,000 in prizes across the top five projects: $1,200 for first, $800 for second, $500 for third, and $250 each for fourth and fifth.
Online and in-person teams are judged the same way. A panel of Grove Research and AI Village staff will review submissions. Decisions will be announced roughly a week after the hackathon.
Contact
Ask in #general on the Swarmchasing slack, or email george@sage-future.org.